[color=crimson][b][u]Letters to Super C: #42[/u][/b][/color] ---------------- [i]To the mighty Cat of Steel, SuperCat Dear Sir: How do you do? I wanted to thank you for recruiting Bobby Winston into your organization as the new Captain Beatdown (or Beatdown Bobcat). I was the original Captain Beatdown. When I heard you also recruited the wolf that used to be my nemesis (Goldduster), I felt I had an obligation to write to you just to say hello. I had an unfortunate back injury (as many of us wrestlers sometimes do) that ended my career, but looking back at it, I felt I should have said "I quit" earlier, because I had a similar back injury against one of the bloodhounds that make up the Hound Pound. There are four in all, and one storyline featured a feud between them and the Dog of Doom, because he had made the heel-face turn, but was still calling himself the "Dog of Doom." I think they thought he should have changed his name. (Goldduster did the same thing, though; he kept the name even though he switched sides.) The next time a WWE broadcast features them, they'll reconcile, since the furry division of wrestling seems to be more neutral, with more unscripted fights, and not so many confrontations between heels and faces. My last bout technically resulted in a win for me, because even though we were both out of the ring and should have been disqualified (because if you don't get back in the ring by the time the referee counts to 20, you lose; this is known as a "ring out" or "count out"), the moves the script called for us to do resulted in Goldduster having me tangled on the ropes, and part of my body was touching the mat. The referee decided I was technically inside the ring because parts of my body were touching it, so he said I won. Tough call, perhaps. Yet it ultimately led to what historians call the "Sydney Screwjob," even though there were really only two distinct parts to it. Part 1 was when CNG took Bobby's humanity away from him and made him a bobcat; in fact, he looked so much like me, the CNG effects had gotten to the WWE, its producers, and the arena officials and ushers, and made them all so darn stupid (and so darn mean), they thought it was me, and that I had miraculously recovered that. Therefore, I wish to add that I was just as ticked off at them as Bobby was; do you blame him? I don't. The script actually called for the Dog of Doom to get impatient and get ready to accept the championship belt by forfeit, only to have a mysterious new challenger show up to take him on for the belt. (I can confirm for you that, believe it or not, it would have been Goldduster.) However, the rude ushers force Bobby into the ring, and the match goes on the way it did. However, the part we forget to mention is that nobody told the Dog of Doom he wasn't fighting against me, but Goldduster. So there's clear evidence that somebody was going to get screwed. If everything had gone the way it was planned, I think Brian (the Dog of Doom) would still have destroyed kayfabe and called for unscripted fights. Yet his first unscripted fight that turned things around for him was that first bout against Bobby, which he lost. It technically counts as Bobby's first win, and on top of that, he won the belt. (I also say this because the three of us did a podcast about it to contribute to the G-52 YouTube channel.) Bobby has amazing instincts; he did exactly what I would have done in that situation. This is why I said to the audience that night, "Yet look at what he did! He's the real superhero!" I therefore nominated him to be the new Captain Beatdown, and he accepted. Wrestling has never been the same ever since. Part 2 was that confrontation in the ring between the producers, one of the referees, and the Dog of Doom, where he yelled, "UP WITH THE UNSCRIPTED FIGHTS!" It didn't help that the producers were trying to make him an anti-American Australian nationalist, just as Bret Hart was being portrayed as an anti-American Canadian nationalist. (Canadian nationalism came to an end once and for all once Levi the Mountee Lion took the Office of the Prime Minister. I don't have to explain to you why that is, do I?) The reporters claimed Brian was robbed, but he said that the Ultimate Destroyer beat him fair and square. After seeing a replay of that bout, I agree. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to talk to me in a response letter, the G-52 app, or even if you come across me in person. Thanks for letting me write to you. I did have a question, though. What led you to recruit Brian? Sincerely yours, Jimmy Plumes, now age 47 (bobcat) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia[/i] -------------- Super C's reply: [color=orange][i]Dear Jimmy: I appreciate you writing to me. Wrestling was something I never followed because I wasn't happy with the deceptions that kayfabe required it to enforce on its people, and wrestlers were once expected to maintain kayfabe to further deceive the viewers into believing what they saw was the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Even before TV and radio, it was happening. (The same is true with yesteryear's roller derby; just ask Danger Dawg. That game is now totally legitimate, but then, there was kayfabe in that, too.) However, I'm still learning about these things, particularly after I hired Goldduster to the ranks. (He's from Montreal, so he says he took it personally when the Montreal Screwjob of 1997 happened. I can only guess that you, Bobby, and Brian felt the same way when the Sydney Screwjob unfolded. However, as we saw from that, it was really all CNG's fault. My reasons for hiring specific recruits varies depending on what circumstances happened to him, and/or certain achievements that they pulled off. In the case of the Dog of Doom, I added him as an ally to the G-52s after I was impressed with the idea he and the other wrestlers (including Bobby) came up with, because it virtually got CNG to leave Australia alone. (The USA is sadly the nation with the most CNG-related deaths, and Wildcat City had more deaths than the rest of the country put together.) It had killed 4,400 people just because they booed him according to the script's instructions, for crying out loud! (Another 3,000 died because they were booing several umpires in the sport you call Australian rules football, because the umpires got the calls wrong in certain cases (although instant replay helped to correct that). One umpire also died because he got it wrong. When people booed for whatever reason, CNG killed him. Why? It saw booing as a form of disturbing the peace, which it treated as the unforgivable sin. (Remember, it wanted Earth to be the new Kriegland because it was furious with the old version of Bendraqi and his cronies for destroying Kriegland with their Laser Beam 5000. They took away CNG's perfect and pure (yet extremely dull, miserable, and boring) world. Upon watching further performances, I decided it would work better if the Dog of Doom was an actual G-52. I can definitely add you as an ally, since you played a key role (without knowing it) in ultimately taking down these diabolical deeds of destruction. In most cases, the G-52s and allies take the official oath, but you're an exception; you're automatically in. Part of that is me trying to balance my hectic schedule as both G-52 commanding officer and as owner and operator of my fitness chain, Wildcat Power Gyms. However, we're going international, with gyms in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and other European nations (and a few South American ones, too), and we're expanding into Australia, so perhaps I'll be able to talk to you down there. As for the comments you made about Levi, you do not tell a lie. Do note that he did need to be taught a hard lesson, even if CNG was controlling him like a puppet. It's why he was a circus clown for 25 shows (although the first five were the actual punishment; the last 20 were just him giving the circus a helping hand when they needed it, and it ultimately taught him to lighten and loosen up, and have some fun every once in a while). Because of these recruits, I've also been talking to some of the human wrestlers (but not Vince McMahon) and asking for their input on these events (the Montreal Screwjob in particular). I therefore believe Vince screwed Bret, but Bret was causing problems because he had been cast as the anti-American Canadian nationalist. When Leo the Patriotic Lion was President of the United States, he declared Canada to be one of the nation's strongest allies (and he says the same for your country), so there was no reason for such nationalistic views to happen. And when Levi was Prime Minister, it did come to a dead stop, because almost everybody threw away the mindset in favor of obeying him to the letter. (The key word being "almost;" there were a rare few exceptions.) Hope that helps; thank you for writing to me, and thank you for clearing up those things about the Sydney Screwjob. Yours truly, Simon Corrineson, a.k.a. SuperCat, the Cat of Steel Commander-in-Chief of the G-52 Organization of Superheroes[/i][/color]